Sixteen dead on board in U.S. military plane crash

US: According to the information given by the officials, in an incident that took place in rural Mississippi that killed at least sixteen people on board after a U.S. military plane crashed.

While talking to the media, Leflore County Emergency Management Agency Director Frank Randle went on to say that 16 bodies had been recovered after the KC-130 spiraled into the ground about 135 kilometers north of Jackson in the Mississippi Delta.

“You looked up and you saw the plane twirling around,” he said. “It was spinning down.”

Jones said the plane hit the ground behind some trees in a soybean field, and by the time he and other reached the crash site, fires were burning too intensely to approach the wreckage. The force of the crash nearly flattened the plane, Jones said.